Cell Tower Fires, Collapse and Criminal Activity
Cell towers present safety risks when proposed at schools and in neighborhoods. Cell towers are industrial machinery and have series risks.
In addition, worker safety has been an ongoing safety issue. If a cell tower is proposed near a school or home, please ensure an engineer has evaluated the site and mitigated all hazards., Get the evaluation in a sealed report.
“Police say at least ten people, including seven children, were killed in Bekasi on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia, this morning after a truck crashed into a telecommunications tower near a bus stop and toppled the structure in a busy area where school children were on the street during a morning recess.
The children’s ages ranged from 7 to 11 years old.”
The truck toppled the tower that fell across the street. Photo: Wireless Estimator Google Maps screenshot.
Read Cell tower collapse kills seven children outside of a school in Jakarta | Wireless Estimator
Fires
- Stadium Light Catches Fire High School In Chula Vista
- 5G small cell fire in LA 2019, Fire from across the street LA – 5G cell phone tower. Fire on afternoon of 8.9.19.
- Cellphone tower fire in Seattle | FOX 13 Seattle
- Man accused of arson and vandalism Stratford Elementary School arrested in Kings County | KMPH
- Parts of Yonge St. and Hwy. 401 closed due to burning communications tower
- Cell phone tower near Heritage High School catches fire
- School Football Field Cell phone tower catches fire in Grandview, Ohio.
- Cell tower fire at Thurston High sends up smoky plume.
- Cell tower catches fire in Lapeer – The County Press
- Virginia cell tower fire
- Cell phone tower in Hanover catches fire
- Fire Extinguished on Roof of Crown Heights Apartment Building – Anash.org
- Cell tower at Risk of Falling after Fire Atlanta Georgia.
- Pennsylvania Fire results in Collapse Fears: Collapse Zone created at base and they vacated the buildings:
- Cell tower fire closes Rockbridge Road, evacuates day care.
- New Jersey Cell Tower Fire:
- Explosion near cell tower likely caused by propane leak, Iowa
- Cell phone tower to be taken down following fire, Georgia
- Cell phone tower catches fire near U.S. 95 Las Vegas,
- Maryland Cell Tower Destroyed by Fire
- Cell tower catches fire, nearby buildings evacuated, San Bernardino County, California
- Osprey nest, electrical problem sparked Poulsbo cell tower fire Washington State
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Cell companies’ (Verizon, At&T, and Next G): Overloaded utility poles with cell equipment resulted in poles snapping and igniting fire in Malibu and California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) approved a $12 million settlement involving Verizon (for total settlement of $60 million),
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Verizon evaded its duty to rebuild Malibu Canyon utility poles as required in its Settlement Agreement, ‘dumping the Malibu Canyon utility pole remediation on Frontier Communications,’
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Verizon not computing wind or weight loads on aging poles when adding cell towers per CPUC investigation. “The Public Utilities Commission discovered neither the power company nor the wireless firms are computing wind or weight loads on aging wooden poles that in recent years have been increasingly burdened by new, heavy fiber optic cables and wind-catching phone antennas.”
Cell Tower Collapse
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Cellphone tower collapses near Tropicana and Nellis
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Either Mother Nature or a deficient design caused a New York American Tower monopole to collapse | Wireless Estimator
- Cell tower collapse kills seven children outside of a school in Jakarta | Wireless Estimator
- Wind topples communications tower on Sugarloaf Mountain in Maine
- Tornado takes out an ATC 150-foot monopole as Ida winds its path of destruction through the northeast | Wireless Estimato
- Cell Equipment Worker Atop Hammock Water Tower Falls Inside Cylinder, Triggering High-Wire Rescue | FlaglerLive
- A cell tower, damaged by fire, has been taken down after it hung precariously over Highway 305. Washington State.
- OSHA Investigating Fatal Cell Tower Collapse in Harrison County West Virginia 2014:
- Names released in fatal cell tower collapse.
- Burning Cell Tower at Risk of Falling in Seminole County, Oregon
- Oswego, New York Cellular Tower Crushes Chief’s Vehicle
- Tower collapse: Heavy wind and rain blamed for downing ‘major communications’ equipment in Berkshires, knocking out police, fire radio service, Massachusetts
Worker Deaths and Accidents:
- Cell Tower Climber Falls 153 Feet, Dies on Impact, Minnesota
- Tulsa Fire Department Rescues Worker From Top Of Cell Phone Tower
- Worker who fell 65 feet from cell tower dies: Arizona:
- Worker hurt in 80-ft. fall from cell tower in Marcy New York.
- Cell phone towers collapse in West Virginia, killing 3 http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/02/02/cell-phone-towers-collapse-in-west-virginia-killing-3/
- A Deadly Surge in Tower Climber Accidents
- Fatal bandwidth: 6 cell tower deaths in 5 weeks: Indiana, Nebraska, Georgia.
- Burleson fire dept. rescues man from cell tower, Texas
- Gaithersburg Maryland: Trapped Worker is rescued after freezing.
- Texas: Six Hour Rescue for Tower Worker
- Spokane fire department rescues dangling cell tower worker, Spokane Washington.
- Worker rescued after hanging from Charlotte cell phone tower, Charlotte
Criminal Activity Such As Stealing Copper
- Expensive cable lines stolen from local cell tower | WKBN.com
- Cell tower copper thieves targeted 911 video cameras | Cabling Installation & Maintenance
- Five indicted for stealing copper wire from 80 cell towers | Wireless Estimator
- Subtel rejects the theft of 12 tons of copper cables and proposes tougher sentences for those responsible for crimes against telecommunications infrastructure – BNamericas
- Verizon Offers up to $50,000 for Information on Copper Cable Thefts on Pittsburgh’s North Side
- Copper thefts at 3 cell sites in New York highlight vulnerabilities and security systems at towers | Fierce Telecom
- Expensive cable lines stolen from local cell tower | WKBN.com
- Two men accused of stealing copper from seven Scotland County cell towers
- 2014: Copper thefts on the rise: “Since Jan. 1 in Olathe, KS, alone there have been five reports of cell phone tower break-ins and thefts. Sources say the damage being done to the towers is in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. The copper is part of the grounding component and without it, if there’s a lightning strike, it could fry all the electronics inside and make the tower useless. That means an entire area could be left without service.
- Copper ground wire and a copper bus breaker were stolen from the AT&T cell tower on Coolspring Church Road
- Busbars stolen from Centreville MD cell phone tower June 2014
- Arrests made for alleged cell tower diesel fuel thefts in Anne Arundel County
- Copper stolen from cell tower in Millington MD: Six copper electrical connectors
- MD State Police 10/2013 to 12/2013, the Easton Barrack was contacted regarding the theft of copper-rich batteries from several cell tower locations in Dorchester County.
Falling Ice
Falling Debris
- Feb 13, 2012 El Paso Texas, Decorative Frond Falls From Palm Tree Cell Phone Tower, slices through man’s car.
- St. Peters residents raise safety concerns about new cell phone tower: Debris coming in every storm.
- 2/20/2014 Crescenta CAAT&T Withdraws Cell Tower Application: Debris fall off cell tower onto residence.
Other Concerning Situations:
- Up a tree and in hot water: Person jumps from cell tower; parachute gets tangled in tree | Law and order | stltoday.com
- Suicidal person talked down from Tower: Florida
- Teen Talked Down From Cell Tower
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